It's a very small world

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There I am hand in hand witth my wife walking through a Disney park in Florida and there right in front of me is a work mate. We both know each other is away but neither of us knew where the other was going. A couple of seconds either way and we would have not seen each other. Utterly bizarre. Anybody else with any strange meeting coincidences
 
Not as far as you, but was in London doing the tourist stuff with the wife when we decided to go for a drink, it was an old stone built pub just off Piccadilly Circus.
Ordered a pint and a glass of wine and felt this arm on my shoulder, it was one of my mates from Inverness, ended up having a few more 😀
 
Had the same with an old Uni mate of mine in Krakow in Poland.

Had literally landed that morning and went to find a restaurant for some lunch. We were a bit out from the center and found an Italian. We were reading the menu and all I hear is 'Coffey?' and a tap on the shoulder. Turns out he moved there after Uni and lived just round the corner.
 
As a kid went to Lake Garda after my gcse's. Met a lass who I ended up dating for 9 months much to her dad's disapproval.

The coincidence? Her dad knew me by name as his best mate was my graphics teacher at school and i was, how do I put this. His least favourite pupil and it would appear when out with his mates obviously complained about me a few times.

😂😂😂
 
Walking towards the Brandenburg Gate we passed a couple heading from the BG. Mrs SILH walked about 20 paces then stopped and turned round - and almost in synch the gent of the couple stopped and turned round - my wife's senior consultant from work. Neither knew of the other being in Berlin at the same time. And the fact that we were heading to the BG when we were was random and a last minute decision.
 
Was on holiday in Egypt a couple of years ago, when i heard someone say " you have got big Muscles, do you like fighting?" turned around to see a guy i knew from Harpenden. We were not really friends but used to bump in to each other fairly often in the 80's. the comment stemmed from a party i was at and talking to this chap when up comes some big guy... he looks at us both and says " you've got big Muscles, do you like fighting?" well we both pissed ourselves laughing. Even stranger was this was a real artsy gathering with all but a couple of people at it either art students, or artists etc.. my wife didn't know what to make of this incident..lol
 
then there is the Chic Murray one-liner

It's a small world but I wouldn't want to have to paint it...

and in the interests of maintaining groans...

I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.
 
I played snooker with a guy in the 1960s and attended his 65th retirement do in Woking., Surrey
When I joined Yeovil, Dorset in the late 80s there he was standing next to the bar.
15 years later the MD of a company I worked for in Surrey turned up as member of Yeovil, I met one of my old nearby neighbours in a street in Yeovil after they moved there.

I was beginning to wonder if I had moved to the retirement centre of Somerset.
 
I went to Budapest with Mrs FD and on the plane we bumped into one of her colleagues and his wife... we met them another two times over the course of a long weekend at different tourist attractions in the city. And on the flight home, of course.
 
Was at a school leaver's disco back in '78 in Kildare, Ireland. Spied a lovely looking lass across the dance floor. Our eyes met, we danced, found a table and sat down for a chat... honest. We'd only sat next to each other in class for a term back in 1963, as 5 year olds.

Bumped into friends in London a few years back, we were living in the sub-tropical paradise of Middlesbrough at the time. And bumped into work colleagues in Cambridge who were away for the weekend - their respective husband and wife didn't know...oops.:eek:
 
To flip it slightly have you ever been accosted by someone who swears they know you i.e they have mistaken you for someone else so badly they dont believe you're not them? I have, slightly disconcerting at the time but I must have a doppleganger somewhere.
 
First time ever in London and walking in Picadilly I got a tap on the shoulder.
Turned round to see one of my old school friends, both of us from a small Lothians village.

A few years later sitting on the tube I was aware of the guy opposite staring at me.
Turned out to be another old school friend from the same village [who had grown a beard.]
 
A few years ago on holiday in Majorca we got chatting to a American airman and his German wife. When I said we came from Bellshill his eyes lit up, said he knew two guys from there.
A drummer called wee Jimmy and a guitarist called Wullie Mac, who'd played regularly at his American air base near Hamburg .
Turned out they were my old drummer and lead guitarist, who'd left to play in Germany in 1968, I didn't go but because I had a decent job, and the wife wouldn't let me :mad:
 
anotherdouble said:
There I am hand in hand witth my wife walking through a Disney park in Florida and there right in front of me is a work mate. We both know each other is away but neither of us knew where the other was going. A couple of seconds either way and we would have not seen each other. Utterly bizarre. Anybody else with any strange meeting coincidences
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Did you know they even have a ride at one of the theme parks that features a small small world ...... :)
 
Not quite the same coincidence, but I lived in Ashford and worked in Folkestone (about 15 miles apart) I worked in plant and tool hire. I took a call from someone I'd never heard of who asked to hire a concrete mixer, I did the biz with him and asked the delivery address and he gave my own home address, it turned out that my neighbour was having a bungalow built between his, and my house and the builder couldnt get one locally and just happened on my business.
 
chrisd said:
Not quite the same coincidence, but I lived in Ashford and worked in Folkestone (about 15 miles apart) I worked in plant and tool hire. I took a call from someone I'd never heard of who asked to hire a concrete mixer, I did the biz with him and asked the delivery address and he gave my own home address, it turned out that my neighbour was having a bungalow built between his, and my house and the builder couldnt get one locally and just happened on my business.
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Staff discount ? .:D
 
Hobbit said:
Was at a school leaver's disco back in '78 in Kildare, Ireland. Spied a lovely looking lass across the dance floor. Our eyes met, we danced, found a table and sat down for a chat... honest. We'd only sat next to each other in class for a term back in 1963, as 5 year olds.

Bumped into friends in London a few years back, we were living in the sub-tropical paradise of Middlesbrough at the time. And bumped into work colleagues in Cambridge who were away for the weekend - their respective husband and wife didn't know...oops.:eek:
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what school mate ?
 
Got a couple we are very close to from our days in Bristol - and another couple in our road we are close to from moving 100miles from there.

We had a party some years ago and we invited both couples. Was standing at our front door with Andy (neighbour) when Ian and Mo arrived. Andy looked at Ian and Ian looked at Andy - and both said 'what are you doing here?'

They were at Uni at the same time; the same Uni; and they lived in the same house whilst they were there.

Unfortunately they didn't get on. Ian was dead serious and studious; Andy was a Bowie freak and party animal. Andy had to go through Ian's room to get to his, and as Andy was regularly wrecked he'd be falling all over the place as he passed through Ian's room - whilst Ian was asleep or trying to sleep. I don't think they swapped phone numbers at our party. They haven't been in touch since.

Mighty big coincidence though.
 
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